Robink
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I religiously do weekly water changes. I also test my alk daily and manually dose appropriately. My previous tank, a 75 gallon, consumed 70 ml each of calcium and alk daily on top of the weekly water changes due to the amount of sps I had in that tank.
If you want to have stability in your tank you will probably have to dose to replenish the elements your corals are consuming or your tank will have swings making it unstable and you won't be able to keep those pretty corals we all want...
If you want to have stability in your tank you will probably have to dose to replenish the elements your corals are consuming or your tank will have swings making it unstable and you won't be able to keep those pretty corals we all want...
All live rock and live sand are the same thing as crushed coral and buffer the water. It's slowly stops the buffering action as it's coated with bacteria.
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Als synthetic salt are made of those so called "chemicals" [emoji6]
As with all salts you just need to know which to select for your purpose.[emoji4]
As with all salts you just need to know which to select for your purpose.[emoji4]
Reefing4eva
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A heavily stocked 60 cube with sps corals
@ salty my alk at 9-9.5 dkh,calcium at 420ppm been using tropic Marin classic salt mix
High alk is just more availability to the coral. with low flow its kinda meaningless as its doesnt absorb without proper flow,esp if you may not know what any of this means. a lot of folks dont.
Red Sea coral PRO just sounds good!
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I think you are misunderstanding. You don't dose for "High Alkalinity", you dose for consistent Alkalinity. You target an Alk level, and you try to keep it consistent. Water changes can not keep the Alk as consistent as a dosing setup if you keep hard corals. And the concern about mechanical things breaking might be a little over the top. Probability says you will screw up dosing manually much more often then your dosing system will break. And if it breaks, the likelyhood of it breaking in the "On" position would seem almost impossible.
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Do lps like a consistent high alkalinity like sps is what I'm asking then? , I've herd plenty of horror stories about equipment failure ,nothings perfect though , I enjoy manually dosing it gives me time to notice any problems that might be there
Only if you like chemicals.
hard to say. and no he is a chemist. its probably fine. low cal will make a coral brittle.
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The notion that these "chemicals" are somehow inherently bad because they are man-made is unfounded. Natural salt can be extremely unpure and a large portion of good salts have elevated levels of Magnesium, Calcium, or Alkalinity added as well. Only 'dosing' salt per-say, has the same negative consequences as dosing the chemicals separately.
Could be species, flow is also a factor.
What if I said a coral is like a human but its guts are on the outside. It cant drink milk, so it digests its minerals aminos % nitrogen and phosphates food through its skin(stomach).
http://reefworks.co.uk/articles/obtaining-the-best-colours-from-your-corals/
